Penal Battalions

Everyone is familiar with the concept of «penal battalion». But do you know why and how people became penal soldiers? Can you imagine how they fought and how they rested? Have you thought that penal battalions existed not only in the Red Army? How were penal soldiers portrayed in Soviet poetry and prose, and how were they depicted in Nazi propaganda? Why was it impossible to do without blocking detachments? Were there women in penal battalions? And who was not accepted into the penal units in the Third Reich? We invite the reader to examine the underside of war, where cowardice, punishment, and forced order were present, and to find answers to all questions. The secrets of the «reverse side» of World War II are in your hands!